Thanks you. I'll check them out.

"A wet bird never flies at night."

Thanks. That's great. Maybe provide a little inspiration for you. Again, at the moment I'm not looking to make a profit from this novel, at the moment. I didn't find your bio, how is your English. The only reason I'm asking is to know how to describe a scene I'd like rendered, not that I'm prying, just to make it easier. Again, what I'm looking for are scenes, many without people as I want the reader to use as much imagination as possible to 'fill in the gaps'. I'm pretty good with photoshop so I can help out around the edges. Let me get my act together (finishing several compositions at the moment) and I'll send along some ideas shortly. Maybe it's best if we communicate through email? That way we can attach your renders if the files are not too large. There are other ways as well. I will be in touch with my first idea and will send a model to see how well we mesh, or work together. Thanks again. I will be in touch.

That would be great. I have several artists interested and so like the team approach. Your forte seems to be characters if I'm not mistaken. I assume you work in Poser? How about landscapes in programs such as Vue. I'm a writer/songwriter and wish I had the time to learn to use Poser and Vue as a tool. A fellow artist suggested I call upon expertise within the various art communities such as this one. I can give you some ideas of what I'm looking for by giving you the names of a few artists to give you an idea of what I'm after. Again, if not made clear, this is to help illustrate a Sci-Fi multi-media story for students (using the classroom smartboard as well as individual computers in the lab or at their desks). It's an ambitious project and I have several teachers on board to test out the proto-types. There is nothing like this project currently available in schools, as there are few writers who can both write prose, poetry but especially compose music and create songs as part of the student's adventure. I'm not often on this site and would recommend you write to me at corvotheopera@yahoo.com We can discuss how you can be a help to me and my team there, as well as introducing you to the artists mentioned above. I'm Bill, by the way, from Canada. Please feel free to get in touch and we can get started.

Thanks too, hopeand love. I'm not a digital artist so I'm not often visiting the forum. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks cybemonk, I will definitely check it out.

Thanks Kazam: Should I post this information in the Community Forum. Which other forums might be useful. Right now the project is a prototype with 5 renders for a 'flipbook' reading/imagination project with each turn of the page adding a new soundscape or song. Many times a render will inspire me, that's the way my mind works. I'm more of simply a secretary for my imagination. Realism is what I'm after, landscapes, figures and scenes. Therefore, I'd love to discuss with someone who is interested, but I will provide more details, including artists with the type of renders I'm looking for. Thanks again. I wish I had the time to learn 3D software, but alas my projects are nipping at my heals.

Thank you! Age, it's a bitch. I remember now!

Great meeting, he agreed with what I said but, and here's the kicker, he's asked me to talk with his son and see if there's a way to 'gently' compromise on the site. You're right about the choice to play, I've thought the same thing. I meet his son next week. Yes, I'll rehearse.

Further: Here is stephen lewis' foundation website my partner was comparing his to: http://stephenlewisfoundation.org/ again, code if this does not get through

stephenlewisfoundation and it's an ORGanization - clandestine or what?

As well, my partner is very well spoken with a great voice. One of my specialties is recording vocals song or narrative. So what would you think of a new site where when you open the site you have my african soundbyte along with his narration outlining his passion? Of course, there would be a button to 'turn off sound'.

Thanks again Fenier.

Bill

We've postponed until tomorrow, Wednesday. There's a large proposal on the table for my partner that he thought he'd have it finished. Thanks for checking in, Fenier. We're definitely meeting tomorrow evening.

I talked to him briefly about his site and the reason for the change is he finds other similar websites, such as Steven Lewis, a Canadian that works along side many foundations, quite boring and he wanted to 'spruce it up' a bit. I'm going to tell him I love the photos and video clips but the presentation is the problem.

As well, I've got a sound byte I've been working on for the foundation, quite possibly a Milestone Project, as I call them, where I'm commissioned along with my 'team' to create and produce a song for a purpose, in this case Salama Shield.

If you'd enjoy the opportunity to hear this piece I call African Market, I could send it to you. I'm leary about putting it on my website until I've gone over it with several fine-toothed combs - I'm a bit of a perfectionist and obsess over the slightest detail of a song. However, I'll need your email to send, but no big deal, if you'd like to communicate through renderocity, in this day and age, I understand completely. I also have a dropbox account. 

I do have a quick question for you. Because my studio is stable, I'm not about to switch out of my XP Pro software. I know I'm not running any more than 2 gig but for hard disk recording, as I say, everything is very stable. I am considering a graphics computer in the summer, but right now it's music that's on my mind. So, my question is: I've found yahoo and some other sites have suddenly changed completely and my Windows 8 is now running in compatible mode, a lot has changed. If my site moves into html5/js, is windows 8 on an XP platform going to be an issue?

Thanks again, Fenier.

bill: corvotheopera@yahoo.com

Once again, Fenier, thanks so much for taking the time. I'm adding your information to my agenda for tuesday's meeting. Also, it might be interesting to note I'm involved with a singer, musician from Anguilla (my favorite place in the world). His name's bankie banx and he has a foundation to help island kids in trouble - Stingray - again, like me, music based. He has a great website, again to avoid the coding issue, just google bankie banx and check out his official website. He's a pretty cool guy - he be cool, mon.

Wish I lived in texas, i'd love to sit with you around the computer and website design. Being a musician, collaboration is part of my make-up, so much so that I have a bio-chem prof at U of Waterloo who teams up with me to create 3D illustrations for my work. My time is precious and don't want to spend it learning Poser, Blender and Vue, took me long enough to get ProTracks and Sonar to speak to me - ha ha ha. Also a couple of guys (quantum physics profs) who offer great guitar tracks for me. Funny how most great guitarist I've come across in my long life have been brilliant, yet love playin' that rock and roll et all. Must be the mathematical patterning. Maybe my old high school teacher was right - Bill, all life is summed up in Calculus. Yikes!

Thanks so much, Fenier:

I had the same problems with this site as you. I loved the images, however, size and the special effects spoiled it for me. I also had trouble with the scroll bar, I was searching all over for information links before I finally realized I had to scroll. As well, I was taught many years ago in a desktop publishing course not to use 'fancy' script, not to use bold except perhap a word or two and don't use caps in phrases, sentences and paragraphs. This broke all the rules, I found it tedious to read. I also found the vocabulary could have been brought down to size. If I'm interested in donating, I don't want to have a dictionary handy. 

I'm talking with the founder on tuesday (I think I told you his son and partner put together the website and I think he wanted my opinion (since I'm his commissioned composer) on the site because he had difficulty with it as well. How do you tell your son you don't like his artistic work, eh? That's his problem, I think he just wanted verification before he did the dirty deed.

Thanks again, Fenier. If all goes according to plan, I'm going to make the leap into html5 next week. Again, being a relative 'old timer' back in the day we strived to pay our debts - so if ever you require a music soundbyte or back track to a video, you know where you can find me.

As well, I don't think I passed along my website to you, again coded: I'm

billfarrellproductions with of course a dot com. Hope this isn't spotted! ha ha ha

Note I'm simply offering the music sample on site as an mp3, for the moment, let the viewer decide what they want to use to hear it, until I've upgraded.

Bill 

fenier:

Again, I agree with your recommendation, and I've an aquaintance who can perhaps help me with upgrading - html5/js.

However, I have a small request as per your skills in web design. If you're too busy, I understand completely. I have a friend who is the founder of a large foundation looking after orphans - education, therapy, trade skills - in Africa. He and I have been working together recently on a commission he's given me to compose a song outlining the nature and philosophy of the foundation - I'm a composer/songwriter. However, just yesterday he asked if I'd critique the foundations website his son designed. I have a creative son as well and the worse thing in the world is to try and tell him I had trouble with his work - being a sensitive father and all.

If you have a moment to have a look, it's a charitable foundation with a target I'm presuming of an older generation of corporate/philanthropic support.

I know I'm not to 'advertise' websites etc even though this is not money-making however, I'll code the website I'm discussing above. The ORGanization is salamashield and follow the caps for the tag. Also, if it's easier, you could reply to my email - corvotheopera@yahoo.com

Thanks Fenier. I hope I'm not stepping out of bounds with this request.

I'm bill by the way

Fenier,

Thanks for taking the time to help me out. I'll give it a try. Makes sense to me, but must admit, I'm just a copy and paste code writer. I'll give those two sites some study and see if I can get my head around it.

Too bad you don't live around the corner, I certainly could use your help.

My forte is hard disk recording using pro-tools and sonar as well as a beast of a sampler - gigastudio and omnisphere. So getting my head into website design and development has been quite a stretch, as well as 3D software. I could spend my life learning Vue, etc but fortunately, when asking for some help on this forum, I came across a quantum mechanic prof from the university close by and we've been collaborating ever since, I create the design ideas, he puts them to renders.

Again, thanks for the help. In return, if you ever require a soundtrack, just let me know.

Bill (wishing I'd learned code instead of french)

Fenier,

I had no idea what you were talking about, so I did some research on html5. My market is for a select few - compositions for a specific purpose, unlike a band or solo artist trying to get his work out there. Most times I make a personal contact with a client for a commission (soundtrack, personal composition (Milestone Project) and theater productions for schools and theater companies). It's worked out quite well for me, got me to Anguilla and a collaboration with bankie banx.

However, I'm now offering much of my music free on my site with the idea of a client then purchasing the production performance track, multi-track wave folder for personal editing and documentation. My thought was to use flash to create a playlist but I see what you mean about some browsers not supporting it. 

However, if I switched over to an html 5 player (looks easy to insert code - I work with dreamweaver) I note that people require explorer 9 and other upgraded browsers to play this simple device? I'm finding that many of my clients - older generation like me, still rely on earlier browsers such as myself to support their purposes.

What are your thoughts on this.